So how is the snow in your neck of the woods, yooper dude? I am moving up there next winter to shovel snow for people who are too fat and lazy to do it themselves. There is not enough snow on the continental divide to support me.

/Actually the west does have some snow this year, but I'm in a weird place that gets little.//We're still in full drought mode///Also my area had the third highest temperatures in history last year.

Not from Chicago but visited there on Christmas Day, just a couple weeks ago. They had a white Christmas where I was (near North Side) and it seemed like at least an inch. Can any Chicagoans verify or debunk that? Or did the official measuring site not have an inch?

So how is the snow in your neck of the woods, yooper dude? I am moving up there next winter to shovel snow for people who are too fat and lazy to do it themselves. There is not enough snow on the continental divide to support me.

/Actually the west does have some snow this year, but I'm in a weird place that gets little.//We're still in full drought mode///Also my area had the third highest temperatures in history last year.

Not a lot, only a foot or two in the L. Superior snow-belts. We've only had two real good snow-events. I think I've used my snowblower like 3 times this year, normally I use it twice a week starting in December. We're going to lose a lot of snow if we get the rain they're talking about on Friday. Maybe next winter will be better.

The official measuring is done at O'Hare and the area has enough micro-climates with Lake Michigan and all that it really doesn't offer a good representation of the entire area. Most big cities are like this. When I lived in the Cascade foothills our weather was wildly different from the official Sea-Tac measurements.

dennysgod:Not a lot, only a foot or two in the L. Superior snow-belts. We've only had two real good snow-events. I think I've used my snowblower like 3 times this year, normally I use it twice a week starting in December. We're going to lose a lot of snow if we get the rain they're talking about on Friday. Maybe next winter will be better.

Still better than where I'm at. I have this on my computer (because that's where I'd be), and I check it, just to see. And I see that the snow is melting, melting......

Mr. Right:Not from Chicago but visited there on Christmas Day, just a couple weeks ago. They had a white Christmas where I was (near North Side) and it seemed like at least an inch. Can any Chicagoans verify or debunk that? Or did the official measuring site not have an inch?

Same here in Colorado. Usually by this time of year we've had at least one storm that's made me look into plow attachments. We've gotten a couple inches a few times, but never enough to even interrupt my jogging schedule.

Mr. Right:Not from Chicago but visited there on Christmas Day, just a couple weeks ago. They had a white Christmas where I was (near North Side) and it seemed like at least an inch. Can any Chicagoans verify or debunk that? Or did the official measuring site not have an inch?

I was on the North Side, nowhere near an inch fell on Christmas.

Grew up west of Chicago, and vast majority of Christmases (?) were not white.

Mr. Right:Not from Chicago but visited there on Christmas Day, just a couple weeks ago. They had a white Christmas where I was (near North Side) and it seemed like at least an inch. Can any Chicagoans verify or debunk that? Or did the official measuring site not have an inch?

Very little of that fell in the south suburbs, and there's no snow on the ground now at all. Today, the high temperature here was 50° F.

One can do as the Dutch to deal with snow on a bicycle: Use an inner tube liner, and screw lotsa little screws into knobby tires from the backside. These act as studs. Use a low gear and try to avoid standing starts.